Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken

2009-07-03 Thread Mike Monett
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:55:36 -0300, Mike Monett wrote: I'm hoping a lot of these problems will soon go away. I have WinXP SP3 running in VirtualBox 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.04, and it works great. But it doesn't like running my old DOS programs. The screen update is so

Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken

2009-07-02 Thread John Murphy
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:55:36 -0300, Mike Monett wrote: I'm hoping a lot of these problems will soon go away. I have WinXP SP3 running in VirtualBox 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.04, and it works great. But it doesn't like running my old DOS programs. The screen update is so painfully slow it

Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken

2009-07-01 Thread Robert Atkinson
the bots out. Robert G8RPI. --- On Wed, 1/7/09, Mike Monett xde-l...@myamail.com wrote: From: Mike Monett xde-l...@myamail.com Subject: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken To: time-nuts@febo.com Date: Wednesday, 1 July, 2009, 2:27 AM   The Google  patent  search  is   a   very

Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken

2009-07-01 Thread Mike Monett
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:24:38 + (GMT) From: Robert Atkinson robert8...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken Hi Mike, Try http://ep.espacenet.com/ It's an offical european site that also searches US and World Patents. Very flexible search

Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken

2009-07-01 Thread Robert Atkinson
] Google Patent Search is Broken To: time-nuts@febo.com Date: Wednesday, 1 July, 2009, 2:55 PM   Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:24:38 + (GMT)   From: Robert Atkinson robert8...@yahoo.co.uk   Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken   Hi Mike,   Try http://ep.espacenet.com

Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken

2009-07-01 Thread Lux, James P
http://www.uspto.gov has a pretty good search engine for US patents (with images, if you load the AlternaTiff plugin)   Try http://ep.espacenet.com/  It's an offical  european  site that   also searches  US and World Patents. Very flexible  search options   and no registration

Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken

2009-07-01 Thread Mike Monett
Hi, I don't think its a version problem. When you have the patent displayed (View original document tab) you only see one page at a time. see http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?FT=Ddate=20040226DB=EPODOClocale=en_EPCC=USNR=2004036036A1KC=A1 (one of

[time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken

2009-06-30 Thread Mike Monett
The Google patent search is a very useful for studying GPS technology, precision oscillators, etc. It has been extremely reliable in the past, but today it started giving an error message after downloading only 5 patents. The error message is: Google Error